Waiver Wire, 10/16/2006

Well it's been three days since the switch from decaf to regular was announced, so let's see what Redskinsland has to say about it. News and notes from the world of the Redskins.

Master4Caster at Running Redskins is out of energy, so he's just telling Redskins jokes. Most of them are actually Cowboys jokes. A gret link in this post to MSH at No One Appreciates Me. At All, with news the the Redskins have signed Jim Brown, Curtis Martin and Michael Jordan. Dan Snyder's reactions to questions from a reporter about the wisdom of this deal:

"Let me turn the tables for just a moment, and ask you a question," Snyder said. "How much money do you make?"

When the reporter responded that he did not see how that was relevant, Snyder persisted.

"Seriously. How much? I know you people don't make that much. I'll be generous and say $50,000 a year. Well, the Redskins -- which I own -- are worth more than $1 billion. That is my worth. See this fingernail? I'm going to bite it off. One second. Okay, see it on the floor now? That's a $50,000 fingernail, easy. So basically, that's you. I literally just chewed you up and spit you out. So maybe we should think twice before we decide to wear the Daddy Pants, okay?"

David Gaines at Skinsaphrenia is upbeat on the swap of Mark for Jason and Clinton for Ladell, but in a 1995-Bengals-maybe-Dave-Shula-can-still-get-it-out-of-the-ditch kind of way.

Skin Patrol at Hogs Haven has a good piece on the Redskin defense's inability to create turnovers. Tom Boswell wrote an interesting 'statistically this shouldn't be happening' column on turnover differential. It is shaping up like the Redskins are going to defy all logic this year.

The ever-intrepid Lee at The Redskin Report now is pushing Redskins merch in partnership with Amazon. You're about two months too late Lee, but I still may head over there for a Cooley jersey (Cheerleader not included). And how's this for a headline-nutgraf combination:

Campbell Gives a Reason to Hope

Jason Campbell is not going to lead the Redskins to the playoffs this year.

That's how bad it is in Redskinsland.

Counter Trey looks at a few plays that changed the Eagles game. And it's true, everyone but Redskins fans wants to see Joe Gibbs fail and leave, because what's happening this year is not Joe Gibbs football.

Finally, Jason La Canfora at Redskins Insider has an interesting question: will Mark Brunell be back? I think yes, and if 2005 is a guide, he'll be the starter by game 2 of next season. Remember how Mark was benched in the 9th game of 2004 (Mark was just demoted after the 9th game of this season), but Mark said he wanted to stay with the team and Joe ominously said Mark was still going to be a big part of this team? One Shuler Treatment later and Patrick was on the bench after one series in 2005.

And for those of you wondering about Adam Archuleta's contract and what it means for the Redskis going forward, there is an incredibly wonky piece on it, with the inrticacies of option bonuses, guaranteed money and dead-cap money. Bottom line: unless Archuleta magically starts to get this defense (and I hold out hope that he will and we will see him reinserted back into the starting slot), he is going to cost the Redskins $7 million against the cap in 2008, reagardless of almost any action the Redskins take.

Next: NFC Beast Notes. Time to get back on that train and find out what the good teams in the NFC Beast are up to.